Officials: Names Selected in The Club at Melville Lottery

In what turned out to be a four-hour process, the names of 1,323 people interested in buying units at the Club at Melville, an affordable senior housing development, were selected in a lottery held Thursday at Huntington High School. 

Huntington Councilwoman Susan A. Berland began the lottery by drawing the names of Katherine and Joseph Ingber. Supervisor Frank P. Petrone later joined Berland to select some of the winners, who will go onto the next step in the process of qualifying for units in the affordable over-55 community under construction on Deshon Drive.

Of the 1,323 persons who filed intake forms, 678 are current Huntington residents and will receive preference. The first 300 of those names will be sent packets seeking detailed financial information to determine their qualifications. 

Those remaining on the list will be sent qualification forms for any units still available to be awarded. 

he Huntington Community Development Agency, which administered the lottery, is also processing the qualification forms.

The units will be sold in three categories, based on income, in accordance with the requirements of town code. The income levels and the sales price for each category are: 80 percent of median income (sales price $211,750; maximum income for a two-person household is $67,800); 120 percent of the median income (sale price $317,750; maximum income for a two-person household is $101,650); and 130 percent of median income (sale price $385,000; maximum income for a two-person household is $120,281). 

Those not meeting the income criteria were allowed to participate in the lottery. They may be offered the opportunity to purchase one of the $385,000 units if any are available after offers are made to those meeting the criteria.

Those unable to attend the lottery can find their ranking by clicking on the lottery results icon at the bottom of the town website.